Re: Are $_POST and $_GET interchangable?

Hello DAvid, Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 11:08:01 AM, you wrote: DJ> I understand the difference between how they process from data. DJ> Most application seem to reply on $_GET which display the DJ> session/from/cookie values in the URL windows. Just to re-cap where they come from: It depends on how the data is being sent to your script. For example, variables passed on the query string - i.e.: http://www.site.com/file.php?a=hello&b=world Those variables (a and b) will only be visible via $_GET. Where-as values passed from a form that uses the POST method: <form action="file.php" method="post"> </form> These will only be available in $_POST. DJ> What I'm not clear on are there times when you have to either $_POST or DJ> $_GET? Well that depends on the script in question more than anything. If you're trying to pass values to a script that is expecting them to be in $_GET then you have to pass those values on the query string. What situation do you have that makes you ask this question? Perhaps with a little more detail we can explain further? -- Best regards, Richard Davey http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html